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——————————————————————6/20/2003 – “Today’s plea and settlement demonstrates our strong commitment to protecting the American public from corporate greed, in whatever form that it may occur”

“THIS CASE SENDS A STRONG MESSAGE TO THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY that fraudulent activity . . . will not be tolerated and will be investigated and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
——————————————————————It’s now been over 10 years

NOT SO MUCH ?
——————————————————————INSANITY:Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result
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======================================AstraZeneca LP / AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Wilmington, Delaware-based company 4/27/2010, Tuesday – (1/2001 – 12/2006)======================================$520 MILLION
——————————————————————$301,907,007 million – federal government
——————————————————————$218,092,993 million – State Medicaid programs and District of Columbia will share up to
——————————————————————$45 million + – James Wetta, whistleblower will receive from federal share of civil recovery======================================

======================================Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and subsidiaries, Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Scios Inc.11/4/2013, Monday – (1998 – 2009)======================================$2.2 BILLION +CRIMINAL LIABILITY
CIVIL LIABILITY
——————————————————————$1.72 billion – civil settlements with federal government and States
——————————————————————$485 million – criminal fines and forfeiture
——————————————————————$400 million
——————————————————————$334 million – criminal fine
——————————————————————$66 million – forfeiture——————————————————————$1.391 billion – false claims allegedly resulting from off-label marketing and kickbacks for 2 drugs includes
——————————————————————$1.273 billion – resolution
——————————————————————$118 million – paid to state of Texas 3/2012 to resolve similar allegations relating to 1 drug——————————————————————
additional payment as part of settlement shared between federal and state governments
——————————————————————$749 million – federal government recovering
——————————————————————$524 million – the States recovering
——————————————————————$59 million – federal government and Texas each received from Texas settlement——————————————————————$149 million – kickback allegations settlement
——————————————————————$132 million – federal share of settlement
——————————————————————$17 million – 5 participating states’ total share of settlement
——————————————————————$98 million – 2009 – Omnicare civil liability——————————————————————
J&J and its subsidiary, Scios Inc.
——————————————————————$184 million – federal government civil liability
——————————————————————$85 million – 10/2011criminal fine——————————————————————
From federal government’s share of civil settlements
——————————————————————$112 million – whistleblowers in Eastern District of Pennsylvania
——————————————————————$27.7 million – whistleblowers in District of Massachusetts
——————————————————————$28 million – whistleblower in Northern District of California======================================

======================================Merck & Company2/7/2008, Thursday======================================$650 MILLION – 2 cases
——————————————————————$399 million + interest
——————————————————————$250 million + interest——————————————————————$360 million + – federal government settlement agreement
——————————————————————$290 million + – 49 states and District of Columbia settlement agreements——————————————————————$44,690,000 million – Mr. H. Dean Steinke, former Merck employee from federal share of settlement amount(1997 – 2001)
——————————————————————$23.5 million – Mr. H. Dean Steinke, former Merck employee from the states share of settlement amount(1997 – 2001)——————————————————————Dr. William St. John LaCorte in New Orleans will receive share of proceeds from federal and state settlement amounts under their respective qui tam statutes======================================